Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-14

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easily understood without the necessity of
legal education.
An Ancient Friend Bobs Up.
NEW YORK, February 13th.-An airy pro-
ject has been concocted for spectators.
The Transcontinental Aerial Navigation
Company OF Chicago is the lame of a
new corporation, the stock of which was
listed by the Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum Exchange yesterday. The totsl
amount of shares TO be issued is not stated,
but shares representing par value of
$3.50 600 were listed The company is said
to be organized for the purpose of estab-
fishing direct air line between New York
and the Pacific coast. Transportation will
be by balloons carrying conical shaped cars.
This airy project is said to have interested
the cooperation of w. F. Miller, G. W
Chamberlain and other members of the
Consolidated Exchange.
Crops in the West.
CHICAGO, February 13th.-The following
summary will be printed in this week S
issue of the Farmers ResieW Reports as
to the condition of winter wheat continue
generally of a favorable character, with the
exception of those from Kansas, where, in
the majority of counties, the outlook is
regarded as poor. The latest reports were
all made prior to the cold wave of Friday
| night, and the resulting damage to exposed
fields, if any, has not vet been fully dis
closed Reports from Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio state that plants are looking green
and tender, but that broad acres are en-
tirely exposed, and indicating that the crop
would be subject to certain amount of
peril in the event Of freezing weather.
Grants slanderers.
BALTIMORE, February 13th.-Maior w. C.
| Carroll published in the american yester-
day letter from Colonel Grant, in which
he refers as follows to Colonel Boynton s
recent article in the New York San about
drunkenness on the part of General Grant
was 35 years old when he died. / spent
| twenty-six of those years by his side, and
never saw any signs of the weakness of
which Boynton speaks. There are several
| persons-assassins of reputation and others
in the United States. They have for
years been trying to ruin the fair name Of
the purest man and best father that ever
lived. They have succeeded in making
the hearts of those who loved him bleed.
God forgive them and make their burden
lighter in the next world than they have
tuGetFOIcu W plaCc upOli illo Hettl - VI tuc
family OF General Grant in this"
Alleged Defalcation.
AUSTIN (Tex.) February 13th.-There is
quite sensation here among the members
of the Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows, which
| has been in session during the week 1t is
alleged that Thomas NJ. Joseph, promi-
| nent lawyer of Galveston, and for ten years
| Treasurer of the Grand Lodge Of Odd Eel
| lows of Texas, is short in his accounts in a
sum ranging from $12, COO to $4,000. Sus-
| picion was first induced nearly year ago
| by draft drawn en- Joseph being returned
| unpaid. Subseq emily other drafts drawn
! on him, and which should have been
| promptly honored, were likewise returned.
A Husbands Terrible Deed.
MILWAUKEE, February 13th.-Charles
| klose, Schleisingerville, Wis, saloon
| keeper, loaded two shotSuns this evening
| and emptied the contents into his wife S
| head as she was kneading bread, killing
her instantly. He then tried TO shoot him
self, but merely blew away one cheek. He
locked the doors, poured kerosene over the
| furniture and set the house ablaze. When
| neighbors tried to enter he loaded one OF
the guns and blew out his brains.
Strikers Hunting a job.
| NEW YORK, February 13th.-Following
| the declaration of District Assembly No.
| 40, that the strike was off, there was a gen.
eral rush of 'longshoremen and freight
| handlers along the whole river front yester-
| day morning to get back to work. At some
\ of the piers along East river the strikers
| had not even waited for orders from head.
| quarters but had gone back to work on the
| best terms they could make.
| Huntington's Pictures.
| New YORK. February 13th-The last OF
| the 200 pictures in the Graves collection
were sold Friday night, the total amount
realized being S122S0 C. P. Huntington
| paid $4,000 for Carrots " Landscape and
| Figure" the largest price paid for any sim
gle picture. He is also said to have bought
| Rosseau's Sunset at Darbonne" for s., 100
Prisoners Burned to Death.
NASHVILLE, February 13th.-The Jail at
Murfreesboro Tenn, was burned this morn
ing and three men confined in it perished
in the flames. The fire broke out at 1850
in the Office from an unknown cause.
Jail er jackson, who was asleep upstairs,
rushed down and opened the doors. Ten
men in the upper floor cages escaped, but
three men in one of the lower cages could
not be reached. They cried piteously for
help until the flames reached them.
Death of a Venerable Bishop.
New ORLEANS, February 13th.-A special
to the Picayttne from Vicksburg, Miss,
says: a telegram from Sewauee, Tenn,
announces the death there this morning OF
the Right Rev. William Mercer Green. for
the past forty years Bishop of the Episco-
pal Diocese of Mississippi.
Aid for Foreign Socialists.
NEW YORK, February 13th.-When Bis
marck dissolved the Reichstag the Socialists
of this city met and promised to collect
5000 for the election expenses for twenty
five Socialist members of the German leg
islatiye body. Yesterday the sum was $50
over the $1,000 mark.
Business of Week.
BosToH, February 13th.-The managers
of the leading clearing houses Of the United
States report the total gross exchanges tor
the week ending February 18th to be 1913,
$50, Goa decrease over the corresponding
week OF last year of l s per cent.
a Veterans Decease.
PHILADELPHIA, February 13th.-Elijah
W. Davis, Brevet Brigadier- General of the
United States Volunteers, and President OF
the State Senate, died this afternoon.